Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber had the last word. When Hillary reached the Pole, the Mail's banner line bragged: LUNCH WITH HILLARY, and the byline read: "From Noel Barber, the only British newspaperman there...
Only a month earlier, No. 1 Communist Nikita Khrushchev, in an interview with a Brazilian Communist newspaperman, had plugged for a booming trade that would exchange Brazil's coffee, cocoa, hides, sugar and cotton for such manufactured goods as "oil-well-drilling equipment and automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously similar, were aimed at a big target: a country with 100,000 Communist Party members and enough party-liners to swing a tight election. They were shrewdly directed at sensitive areas such as Petrobras, of which the public is fiercely proud. Publicly, Petrobras was cool to the Torgbraz offers...
...friends, and especially my colleagues on the News, I wish good luck and as much fun as I've always gotten out of life. I'm confident I'm off on the greatest adventure of my life; the biggest assignment any newspaperman could have. And now, my friends in the composing room, just finish off this last story slugged 'Limpus' with the usual...
...that point, one newspaperman was willing to bet that rocket would not get up before 9 a.m. this morning. Bets and predictions flew back and forth until direct reports confirmed that the operation was definitely suspended...
...army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership...